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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2025)
[edit] An economic analysis of climate change estimating the median income change by 2050 compared to a baseline scenario
Economic analysis of climate change Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lead Belly • Comic timing Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:10, 15 September 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2025-38
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MediaWiki message delivery 17:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
Hi, I see you uploaded this file: File:Enwiki Main Page delete screen.png. Could you take another screenshot with the Vector 2022 skin? Or teach me how to do it, in case I'm allowed to see the error? Thanks FaviFake (talk) 16:09, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- I was able to get the error but it was cluttered with other errors, and I think it would be better if in the top right there were an admin's username instead of my own, since I'm not an admin. The link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=delete FaviFake (talk) 16:19, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- FaviFake, the error message will show for everyone, but if you're not an admin, you will get additional error messages because non-admins cannot delete pages.
- I've uploaded a version of the page in the Vector 2022 skin at commons:File:Enwiki Main Page delete screen (Vector 2022 skin).png. To get the page, I used safemode to temporarily hide the gadgets I use, and then simply opened the page and took the screenshot. I left the browser UI with the address bar for context if needed, but you can use CropTool to crop them out if desired. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:55, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. FaviFake (talk) 20:08, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
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